Hard-Constrained Deep Learning for Climate Downscaling
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| author | Harder, Paula Hernandez-Garcia, Alex Ramesh, Venkatesh Yang, Qidong Sattigeri, Prasanna Szwarcman, Daniela Watson, Campbell Rolnick, David |
| author_facet | Harder, Paula Hernandez-Garcia, Alex Ramesh, Venkatesh Yang, Qidong Sattigeri, Prasanna Szwarcman, Daniela Watson, Campbell Rolnick, David |
| contents | The availability of reliable, high-resolution climate and weather data is important to inform long-term decisions on climate adaptation and mitigation and to guide rapid responses to extreme events. Forecasting models are limited by computational costs and, therefore, often generate coarse-resolution predictions. Statistical downscaling, including super-resolution methods from deep learning, can provide an efficient method of upsampling low-resolution data. However, despite achieving visually compelling results in some cases, such models frequently violate conservation laws when predicting physical variables. In order to conserve physical quantities, here we introduce methods that guarantee statistical constraints are satisfied by a deep learning downscaling model, while also improving their performance according to traditional metrics. We compare different constraining approaches and demonstrate their applicability across different neural architectures as well as a variety of climate and weather data sets. Besides enabling faster and more accurate climate predictions through downscaling, we also show that our novel methodologies can improve super-resolution for satellite data and natural images data sets. |
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| spellingShingle | Hard-Constrained Deep Learning for Climate Downscaling Harder, Paula Hernandez-Garcia, Alex Ramesh, Venkatesh Yang, Qidong Sattigeri, Prasanna Szwarcman, Daniela Watson, Campbell Rolnick, David Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics Machine Learning The availability of reliable, high-resolution climate and weather data is important to inform long-term decisions on climate adaptation and mitigation and to guide rapid responses to extreme events. Forecasting models are limited by computational costs and, therefore, often generate coarse-resolution predictions. Statistical downscaling, including super-resolution methods from deep learning, can provide an efficient method of upsampling low-resolution data. However, despite achieving visually compelling results in some cases, such models frequently violate conservation laws when predicting physical variables. In order to conserve physical quantities, here we introduce methods that guarantee statistical constraints are satisfied by a deep learning downscaling model, while also improving their performance according to traditional metrics. We compare different constraining approaches and demonstrate their applicability across different neural architectures as well as a variety of climate and weather data sets. Besides enabling faster and more accurate climate predictions through downscaling, we also show that our novel methodologies can improve super-resolution for satellite data and natural images data sets. |
| title | Hard-Constrained Deep Learning for Climate Downscaling |
| topic | Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05424 |